braise
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,441
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
braise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bois réduit en charbons ardents. Pronounced \bʁɛz\. Often confused with bras and brie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | braise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for braise is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bʁɛz\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,441 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for braise, with forms such as "barise", "bbraise", and "braies". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bras", "brie", "bris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is braise, spelled B-R-A-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bois réduit en charbons ardents.
- 2Résidu d’un feu.
- 3Conditionnement thermique d'un four à la température exigée pour l’affinage du verre dans le basin.
- 4Charbons que les boulangers tiraient de leur four et qu’ils éteignaient ensuite pour les vendre.
- 5Bois dur carbonisé dans des meules que le charbonnier construit sur place.
- 6→ voir braises
- 7Argent, monnaie.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: barise,bbraise,braies,braisse,brasie,briase,brraise,rbaise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for braise
Misspelling Variants of "braise"
Frequency rank: #34,441 in French
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